GOOD! I, for one, am tired of lazy ass devs with second rate games. And this includes lazy ass devs that don't port shit to other platforms...looking at you Valve...take your head out of your ass and port great games to other platforms...left 4 dead to PS3 please...and Bethesda WTF? no Fallout 3 DLC for PS3? and 360 owners deserve Killzone 2 Guerilla...imagine how much better it would be on Live?
sorry if I am pissed and ranting...I got off work early and drank a bottle of wine...long week in the IT industry
@Seiven: The only reason Killzone 2 would be better on live is because my friends won't get off their lazy asses and turn on their PS3. I mean they have one, and they like the game but, they refuse to play it. It's mind boggling.
@Theoutlet: really? damn we, as gamers, owe it to our culture to get them off their asses...KZ2 is Amazing...I love Live and wish that PSN is one day as good, but damn...really? that lazy?
I want this game to be good. And really, half of what made the old games awesome was the over the top gore. Chainsawing dead babies or midgets or whatever those things were, then chainsawing a beating heart and making blood come down the entire screen? It's so over the top it's great. All those exploding monsters and headless enemies that are headless because you punched off their heads but they keep fighting anyway? I loved it. Question is...can you get away with that sort of ludicrous horror gore in a game anymore? The obvious answer might appear to be yes, since we've done it before and we've seen what games like GTA and God of War do, but back in the day, the Splatterhouse games were about pushing the limits of what was acceptable. To be truly memorable, it'd have to do it again. And if they do...well, bring a good umbrella to shelter yourself from the shitstorm.
Man In Gauze is an obscure reference to Courage the Cowardly Dog. was starred
Man In Gauze is an obscure reference to Courage the Cowardly Dog. was unstarred
Ninja Scroll has.. machinery.. and some camera- work, as well as dialogue, that suddenly removes the series from the original setting. Samurai Champloo has things like baseball, the music, or graffiti. And Afro Samurai does the same thing with hip- hop.
It's not a good term, "futuristic feudal Japan" - but then again it's not something you can describe all that well, anyway.
Beautifully rendered, well-crafted and flowing free with a few problems regarding the combat and such that are almost drowned out by RZA and Samuel L. Jackson doing what they both do best.
It's a really really fun game if you can get past the few flaws mentioned above.
From both the review and demo I played earlier today, this sounds like a game I could waste a couple of hours on (before getting bored), but not pay full price for.
Unfortunately for Afro Samurai, too many fantastic games were released recently, with many more lined up in the coming months.
If only I had more free time... Wishes, horses, riding beggars, candy, nuts n' all that.
@Cerabret100: i loved samurai champloo and afro samurai. just doesnt mean either of thm can make a decent game. now if they used the graphics and fighting from naruto ultimate ninja storm in every anime game, that'd be a very special market for people to be in.
The series was a total rip off of Ninja Scroll wrapped up in a desperate attempt to appeal to the 50 cent crowd with tacked on black-guy voices and music. (Ever see the creator of Afro? Totally not a negro. Boring guy, too.) Still, I was hoping the game would be really fun, is it like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden? Or not as good?
I've watched Ninja Scroll, long time ago, long before Afro came out.
I thought it was a piece of shit. Sorry... I know theres a lot of love for it, but I put it in the same bucket as the first Vampire Hunter D movie (the second one was AWESOME though).
Afro was entertaining, mostly because of Ron Pearlman, Sam L and a black samurai with an afro. I still love it.
@GOLD5: I noticed one similarity between Afro Samurai and Ninja Scroll and it was fight scene on a bridge. If you ever seen a ronin type film ,like Zatoichi or Sanjuro, you would know that those scenes are abundant.
"...50 Cent crowd..." - that's real cute. Here's a spoiler,as much as you might not want to believe, the majority of rap music isn't that garbage that they spew on MTV. I consider myself a hip hop aficionado,yet you'll never catch me listening to 50 Cent,Lil Wayne,Young Jeezy or any of the other sellout rappers you see on tv.
Also, what does the creator of Afro not being a "negro" have to do with anything.
@Blacksnyder: The fight-on-a-bridge is definitely a staple of Japanese samurai folklore. Benkei vs. Yoshitsune as told in the Heike Monogatari is probably the most famous example evar.
Okay, now I want a Yojimbo/Sanjuro videogame set to Gil Scott-Heron's music.
@illrasta79: You're just confused, son. Don't worry, you'll learn to love 50 Cent, eat nothing but fried chicken, impregnate a 14-year-old girl and shoot someone (or shoot yourself in the leg in a nightclub if you play professional football, in which case you should also consider roughing up an air hostess or two).
And you'll be relieved to know that in doing so, you'll help us feed our white liberal guilt and drive up gun sales in South Carolina. :P
@CannibalDan: Bust out the Thesaurus, we're gonna need a lot of synonyms.
game would be more appealing if an actual afro hairpiece was a samurai and went around slashing poor white man's mullets and weird 80's new wave hairdoos.
@Kibblez: I and everyone else on the internet should kill ourselves for being within a 4billion+ comparison rate with you.... i for one am killing myself right now for know what that is.............................................*dies*
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You can get away with it.
Hell, look at Madworld, and that's on the *wii*.
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Ninja Scroll has.. machinery.. and some camera- work, as well as dialogue, that suddenly removes the series from the original setting. Samurai Champloo has things like baseball, the music, or graffiti. And Afro Samurai does the same thing with hip- hop.
It's not a good term, "futuristic feudal Japan" - but then again it's not something you can describe all that well, anyway.
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Beautifully rendered, well-crafted and flowing free with a few problems regarding the combat and such that are almost drowned out by RZA and Samuel L. Jackson doing what they both do best.
It's a really really fun game if you can get past the few flaws mentioned above.
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Then we could just call Uwe Boll "Tool Tool"
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Same here, except I'll probably play it during my summer gaming binge in the fall.
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Unfortunately for Afro Samurai, too many fantastic games were released recently, with many more lined up in the coming months.
If only I had more free time... Wishes, horses, riding beggars, candy, nuts n' all that.
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Have these guys do it, there really could be a market for animes like this done in a half-way decent manner.
Key part being "Half-way decent", tie in games don't have the best record with that part.
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50 Cent's soundtrack for Ghost Dog was totally rad...
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I've watched Ninja Scroll, long time ago, long before Afro came out.
I thought it was a piece of shit. Sorry... I know theres a lot of love for it, but I put it in the same bucket as the first Vampire Hunter D movie (the second one was AWESOME though).
Afro was entertaining, mostly because of Ron Pearlman, Sam L and a black samurai with an afro. I still love it.
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"...50 Cent crowd..." - that's real cute. Here's a spoiler,as much as you might not want to believe, the majority of rap music isn't that garbage that they spew on MTV. I consider myself a hip hop aficionado,yet you'll never catch me listening to 50 Cent,Lil Wayne,Young Jeezy or any of the other sellout rappers you see on tv.
Also, what does the creator of Afro not being a "negro" have to do with anything.
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Okay, now I want a Yojimbo/Sanjuro videogame set to Gil Scott-Heron's music.
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And you'll be relieved to know that in doing so, you'll help us feed our white liberal guilt and drive up gun sales in South Carolina. :P
@CannibalDan: Bust out the Thesaurus, we're gonna need a lot of synonyms.
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Hey, go the honorable way. Seppuku! :D
*draws blade*
*drives blade into lower stomach*
*soul is released*
*dies*
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*copies Darrisbob1*
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We can do this all night, people!